Dashboard Widget Sidebar vs SpiceBox

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Dashboard Widget Sidebar

by Morten Dalgaard Johansen

Health D48

SpiceBox

by spicethemes

Health B82

Active-install trajectory

Dashboard Widget Sidebar SpiceBox

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Dashboard Widget Sidebar	SpiceBox
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	400–500	20K–30K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 48	B · 82 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	84/100 ✓	71/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.34★ ✓	3.86★
Reviews	8 ✓	4
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	39/100	85/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	11.4y ago	2mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	83	2.7K ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Admin & Utilities

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Dashboard Widget Sidebar SpiceBox

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.